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Thomas Kelley
Sport(s)Football, basketball
Biographical details
Bornc. 1888
Alma materUniversity of Chicago[1]
Playing career
1906, 1908–1909Chicago
Position(s)Tackle
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1911–1913
1914
1915–1917
1919
1920–1921
1922

Basketball
1912–1914
1916–1917

Muhlenberg
Missouri Mines
Alabama
Missouri (assistant)
Idaho
Missouri


Muhlenberg
Alabama
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
1920–1922Idaho
Head coaching record
Overall47–24–3 (football)
18–23 (basketball)
Statistics
College Football Data Warehouse

Thomas Kelley (born c. 1888) was an American football player and coach of football and basketball. He served as the head football coach at Muhlenberg College (1911–1913), the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy—now the Missouri University of Science and Technology (1914), the University of Alabama (1915–1917), the University of Idaho (1920–1921), and the University of Missouri (1922). Kelley was also the head basketball coach at Muhlenberg from 1912 to 1914 and Alabama for the 1916–17 season, tallying a career college basketball record of 18–23. In addition, he served as the athletic director at Idaho from 1920 to 1922.

Playing career[]

Kelley played college football as a tackle at the University of Chicago under head coach Amos Alonzo Stagg.[1]

Coaching career[]

In 1915 at Alabama, Kelley coached only the first half of season (4–0) before he came down with typhoid fever. Athletic director B. L. Noojin and former Alabama quarterback Farley Moody took over the head coaching duties for the remaining four games of the season.[2] The 2–2 mark achieved in Kelly's absence is still credited to his record at Alabama of 17–7–1.

Kelley served in the United States Army in World War I and returned to coaching as an assistant at Missouri in 1919.[3] He moved west in 1920 and accepted the dual position of athletic director and head football coach at Idaho; under his leadership the Vandals were admitted to the Pacific Coast Conference in 1922.[4] After two years in Moscow, Kelley accepted the position of head football coach at Missouri in June 1922 at a salary of $4,500 per year,[1] but resigned prior to the completion of his first season.[5]

Kelley also coached basketball for two seasons at Muhlenberg College (1912–1914) and for one season at Alabama (1916–17), tallying a career college basketball mark of 18–23.

Head coaching record[]

Football[]

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs
Muhlenberg Mules (Independent) (1911–1913)
1911 Muhlenberg 5–4
1912 Muhlenberg 6–3
1913 Muhlenberg 6–2–1
Muhlenberg: 17–9–1
Alabama Crimson Tide (Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1915–1917)
1915 Alabama 6–2 4–1
1916 Alabama 6–3 4–3
1917 Alabama 5–2–1 3–1–1
Alabama: 17–7–1 10–5–1
Idaho Vandals (Independent) (1920–1921)
1920 Idaho 4–2
1921 Idaho 4–3–1
Idaho: 8–5–1
Missouri Tigers (Missouri Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Association) (1922)
1922 Missouri 5–3 4–3 4th
Missouri: 5–3 4–3
Total: 30–16–2

References[]

Sources[]

  • Groom, Winston. The Crimson Tide - An Illustrated History. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2000. ISBN 0-8173-1051-7-.

External links[]

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